I'd like a Thompson/Hunter ticket.
I listen to Rudy and I don't hear or see someone who I would trust in the White House. There's something missing and I don't mean just his decidedly non-conservative record. I sense an integrity gap or some disconnect between his ego and his skill set. I'm fearful he'll win the nomination due to the 9/11 aura.
Mitt's a handsome candidate but there's a slickness to him. He appeared quite defensive and again intimated he'd defer to lawyers. On tough questions he fumbles and it feels like he's trying to calculate his words, not speaking from his heart or from a core philosophy.
McCain is done; I even felt bad for him. Ron Paul is a freak show. Tancredo is redundant. Huckabee probably helped himself tonight with some but not with me.
I disagree somewhat about Mitt Romney. I think he's a perfect executive in the sense that he knows that he can't know everything but knows how to put together a team to find and implement the right answers. That's the most important quality that we need in a president. I understand that being "presidential" has traditionally meant creating the impression that one can do everything alone and keeping the team a secret, but I appreciate his being open about the need to surround himself with good people. He occasionally stumbles a bit with a word, but I didn't sense that he was backing down at all tonight. In past debates, he's been more defensive.
Bill